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In this paper, [the author offers] a review sketch of the past 12 years of [the] research on young people and community service. Much of this work was focused on learning more about the conditions that make service efficacious for young people's political and moral development. In the process of studying several youth in various kinds of service programs, [the author] also came to see that service is an opportunity for promoting identity development, meant in the sense of entering and adopting, however temporarily, a value-hearing historical tradition that gives meaning to young people's lives. This concept has become an interpretative framework for [the] understanding of service and its effects. (DIPF/orig.).

In his monumental work, Adolescence, G. Stanley Hall showed the value of interdisciplinary scholarship and respect for research, which had a policy orientation. Over the course of the 20th century these two characteristics faded in adolescent studies as psychology took dominance and basic research was given priority over policy considerations. An argument is made that there is value in revisiting Hall's approach as studies of adolescence can be enriched through interdisciplinary efforts and research which brings policy to the forefront.

Hauptanliegen des Beitrags ist es, die theoretische Beschreibung des moralischen Subjekts kommunikativer Beziehungen mit empirischem Gehalt zu füllen. Dabei wird der Moral ein hoher Stellenwert im Gefüge menschlicher Interaktion zugewiesen, sie ist quasi notwendige Grundlage jeglicher Kommunikation. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die theoretischen Ansätze von Piaget und Kohlberg, die sich aus sozial- und entwicklungspsychologischer Perspektive mit diesem Thema befaßt haben. Beide Modelle werden anhand verschiedener Einzelaspekte von kindlicher Interaktion - wie z. B. Freundschaft, Individualität - miteinander verglichen. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, daß Reziprozität das entscheidende Organisationsprinzip sozialer Interaktion ist. Soziale Bindungen können nur in kommunikativ-sozialen Beziehungen entwickelt werden. (HA)